Zone of the Enders Delayed
Last year Hideo Kojima, of Metal Gear Solid fame, announced that he was working on a sequel to his other major gaming series, Zone of the Enders. And it was a wonderful day for me. Zone of the Enders was a mediocre game, but with the GBA tactics game and Zone of the End ...
Beast of America: Industrialization
(Welcome to the third entry in our series “Beast of America” analyzing the various social themes and messages found within Irrational Games’ latest masterpiece: BioShock Infinite.) Hello and welcome back to our Beast of America series. In the beginning, I really just w ...
T-Hers-Day: Tomb Raider
Lara in the beginning. Thunderous T’Hersday, Schmamers! Yes, I’m almost positive we’ve used that adjective for T’Hersday before. Don’t care. I’m using it because I want to give a thunderous round of applause to Crystal Dynamics for the latest installment of Tomb R ...
Cat Meme Owners Sue Scribblenauts
The copyright holders for Nyan Cat and Keyboard Cat are apparently suing the creators of word smithing game, Scribblenauts. There’s some pretty interesting quotes from the court documents like what Nyan cat is: “Nyan Cat, a character with a cat’s face ...
Noobz Doesn’t Even Deserve A Pun
Last night fellow Schmamer Patrick and I watched Noobz, the movie about ‘competitive gaming’ starring Jason Mewes of Jay and Silent Bob fame. And how awful it was. There is a compelling movie to be made about competitive gaming, as competitions inherently m ...
Beast of America: Racism
(Welcome to the second entry in our series “Beast of America” analyzing the various social themes and messages found within Irrational Games’ latest masterpiece: BioShock Infinite.) White people are terrible when it comes to talking about race. We approach the subject ...
The Failures of Minecraft
Adam once asked me what made Minecraft so special. He was right to ask me; I’m an enthusiastic fan of the game. I own a server. I’ve played with friends around the world. I skipped work to built fortresses. Hell, I even visited Las Vegas, a city I am very m ...
Tales from EVE Fanfest
Brendan Caldwell has an interesting write up over at RPS about the EVE fanfest, and the journey for the richest man in EVE. Saying much more about it would ruin the story, so just go read it. EVE remains continuously fascinating to me, and I wish that game developers wo ...
Schmame Over Episode 7: Haik-Who?
Join us for a very special episode of Schmame Over, where Adam and Joshua learn the truth about drugs. Pat spends his time pretending like he plays video games, Adam vomits rage at us over the Star Trek video game, and Joshua spends his free time pissed off at the sin t ...
Beast of America: Religion – A Different America
(Welcome to the first entry in our series “Beast of America” analyzing the various social themes and messages found within Irrational Games’ latest masterpiece: BioShock Infinite.) I grew up in America. Only, a different America than the rest of you. ...
Soul Sacrificing My Sanity
The PS Vita is a dying system. The PS Vita is the best handheld to ever exist. I’m a huge fan of the PS Vita and its slow, but inevitable, demise makes me really sad. Which is why I get so excited about interesting games being launched on the system, like today ...
Twos-Day Premonition
Zach, did you hear? There’s a new, updated version of the cult video game hit Deadly Premonition out today! Well, of course I know it’s all about us, Zach, but I wanted to make sure you knew too. What’s different, Zach? Well they’ve updated the ...